On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 04:32:07PM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote: > Gus Wirth wrote: >> I suggest reading the man page perlreftut. It clarifies what Perl >> references are and why they exist. In particular, references exist >> due to a deficiency in Perl originating in Perl 4 that didn't allow a >> hash to have anything other than a scalar as a value. > > Interesting. I didn't know this page existed. Yet another way that > python yields more readable code: Python hashes/dictionaries can > contain lists without having to deal with references. In fact, all of > the data structures are nestable.
That's because, in Python, these are objects instead of a primitive type, correct?
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